Grandmother Jacket
As seen in Vogue Business. Worn here with our Biasha Palazzo Pant. Grandmothers wear this traditional jacket as they farm and hack fields of herbs with their machetes. They "leave for work" at sunrise, walking along foot trails through the mountain forest, then return at the end of the day with giant bushels of field greens hanging from a pole balanced across their shoulder. Their calm and confident demeanor as they walk home is striking, perhaps a reflection of living on their own ancestral land. This traditional style is made from heavy cotton fabric hand-woven by a grandmother 40+ years ago. It was stored in wooden trunks in a village home, waiting to, one day, be transformed into the perfect jacket. The asymmetrical jacket is cut selvedge-to-selvedge and zero-waste by design. Fabric knot buttons decorate the front. The heavy hand-spun fabric feels soft against the skin, while the unlined interior reveals the lovingly hand-sewn seams inside. This is natural cotton, undyed and pic